TY - GEN
T1 - Collecting commonsense experiences
AU - Singh, Push
AU - Barry, Barbara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2003 ACM.
PY - 2003/10/23
Y1 - 2003/10/23
N2 - Humans naturally share knowledge by telling stories. This is a form of knowledge exchange we engage in right from early childhood, and over time we learn to recall, order and organize our experiences as stories [1]. In this paper we describe the Open Mind Experiences (OMEX) system, a web-based knowledge acquisition tool that exploits our natural ability to tell and explain stories in order to build a large-scale commonsense knowledge base. We built OMEX to gather descriptions and explanations of everyday, 'common sense' experiences from volunteer contributors distributed across the Internet. We first describe the results of our previous attempt to collect commonsense knowledge from the general public, the Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) project. The OMCS project focused on collecting largely assertional commonsense knowledge, and we describe some of its products and spin-offs. We then give several motivating reasons for why we now wish to collect more script-like knowledge. We then explain the features of the new OMEX site and give an evaluation of system based on a preliminary user study. We conclude by discussing our future directions.
AB - Humans naturally share knowledge by telling stories. This is a form of knowledge exchange we engage in right from early childhood, and over time we learn to recall, order and organize our experiences as stories [1]. In this paper we describe the Open Mind Experiences (OMEX) system, a web-based knowledge acquisition tool that exploits our natural ability to tell and explain stories in order to build a large-scale commonsense knowledge base. We built OMEX to gather descriptions and explanations of everyday, 'common sense' experiences from volunteer contributors distributed across the Internet. We first describe the results of our previous attempt to collect commonsense knowledge from the general public, the Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) project. The OMCS project focused on collecting largely assertional commonsense knowledge, and we describe some of its products and spin-offs. We then give several motivating reasons for why we now wish to collect more script-like knowledge. We then explain the features of the new OMEX site and give an evaluation of system based on a preliminary user study. We conclude by discussing our future directions.
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U2 - 10.1145/945645.945668
DO - 10.1145/945645.945668
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876771830
T3 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2003
SP - 154
EP - 161
BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2003
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2003
Y2 - 23 October 2003 through 26 October 2003
ER -